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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Alan, I'm just about to build a similar enclosure here for my
blueberries...  Is it really necessary to have a chicken wire ceiling?
 So far only the rabbits have been damaging the spring buds...  Is
yours setup so you can stand up inside of it?

~mIEKAL

what people will do for a little bit of fruit...

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I built my chicken wire blueberry house I foolishly failed to bury it
> deep enough to keep the chipmonks out.  Instead of correcting this I end up
> trapping the striped rats in rat traps baited with raisons and nuts.
> They're pretty easy to control that way and the chicken wire keeps out the
> birds so I'm not unintentionally killing any of them.